Account with 60 posts in 11 years and up to 10,000 reputation points

60 posts in eleven years and 1,700 points: fruta is for sale

Sixty posts since 2013. One thousand seven hundred fruta points. The math doesn't add up: fewer than five contributions a year, and yet a respectable social score. Someone asked for explanations two weeks ago, and the answer was a catalogue of possible workarounds. The underlying suspicion is no small matter: in economic discussion communities, digital fruta stopped being a reflection of what each person contributes a long time ago.

How an account gets inflated without posting much

When a message is deleted, the points attached to it should fall too. The checks circulating say the opposite. Some claim to have deleted texts containing personal data without the score dropping one bit; others swear it does drop. The points system —zanks in the jargon— rewards well-rated contributions, and there lies the blind spot: if deletion carries no penalty, anyone can clean up their history and keep the reward.

Five posts and up to ten thousand fruta points

The most cited case breaks every yardstick. An account with five posts and between 8,000 and 10,000 points. When it was flagged, it disappeared. Another reference mentions a profile with a gap of inactivity from 2014 to 2024, as if it had spent the best stretch of its biography in limbo. The most repeated explanation is the mass deletion of its own messages, but it doesn't quite add up: the balance is still there, intact.

Batches of a thousand points in exchange for cryptocurrency

In the realm of rumour, things go further. There is talk of batches of 1,000 points sold for cryptocurrency and of accounts with 100 posts over ten years that suddenly become very active. The record betrays several different hands writing with the same voice, passed from hand to hand. The pattern —veteran account, thin history, sudden activity— fits a sale. None of this is proven: the claim circulates with nothing but coincidence to back it.

From dealing to political narrative

The next step is politics. It is claimed that part of this artificial activity serves to steer the conversation in a particular direction. The suspicion stretches into farce: that the head of Spain's public polling agency is just another voice in the forum. These are conjectures without a shred of evidence. There are also warnings that deleted accounts are never fully deleted: they reappear with their old messages when the platform changes something internally.

On the other side stands scepticism. Fruta is subjective, self-perceived, and in a space where only 300 veterans remain, the idea of swaying public opinion draws laughter.

With all this, the useful question is not who has the most points, but who pays for them. And a more uncomfortable one: at what point did a number on a screen start deciding who gets believed?